Introduction

The Albertine rift, a mountainous region situated in the middle of the African continent is a biodiversity hotspot. It includes the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and the western part of Uganda and of Tanzania.

Funds were allotted by Belspo to make a database of part of the butterfly collection of this region: the family Papilionidae (swallowtails) and the subfamily Charaxinae (Nymphalidae). All label data of the specimens of the above mentioned countries have been input, and also those of Kenya.

The more, "The National Museums of Kenya" provided us with an Excel file of their Papilionidae and these have also been input. In that way distributional information is available of the species of the covered families in Central Africa between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.